xii, 468 pages 25 cm

Philosophical ethics from Socrates to Sartre

Includes bibliographical references

Preface -- Part one: The adventures of reason -- 1. The discovery of ethics: Socrates -- The discovery of ethics: Plato -- The discovery of ethics: Aristotle -- Ethics triumphant: Stoics and Epicureans -- Christians and philosophy: The impact of Christianity on moral philosophy -- Christianity and philosophy; the ethics of Kant -- Part two: The great illusions: post-Kantian dialecticism -- Hegelian Idealism: Hegel and wisdom -- Hegelian idealism: Hegel and the human person -- Sittlichkeit -- Hegelian Idealism: Hegel's God -- Dialectical Materialism: Marx and his school -- Positivism and human knowledge: Auguste Comte and the age of relativism -- Positivism and human conduct: Auguste Comte -- the high priest of humanity -- The ethics of messianic positivism -- Part Three: Moral philosophy's crisis of re-orientation -- Person and liberty -- closed cosmic morality and open cosmic morality -- Brief remarks in conclusion

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